The fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) practices an emergency break-away with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) after a replenishment-at-sea.
Summary
MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Apr. 29, 2019) The fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) practices an emergency break-away with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) after a replenishment-at-sea. Abraham Lincoln is underway as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group deployment in support of maritime security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet, 6th Fleet and 7th Fleet areas of operations. With Abraham Lincoln as the flagship, deployed strike group assets include staffs, ships and aircraft of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 2, the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7; as well as the Spanish navy Alvaro de Bazan-class frigate ESPS Mendez Nunez (F 104). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Michael Singley/Released) File# 190429-N-MM912-2188
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
Tags
Date
Location
Source
Copyright info